From a conversation on the Commons Abundance Network. Of course I agree a lot is solved by having it clear what you are using the word “growth” to refer to. But it’s easier to figure out we *should* be clear about what is being referred to than to really do it. It’s so easy

Report I. (below) 18 June – Comment to UN organizers of Final Report on MDG’s in dialog with Major Groups – MDG solutions are not designed to hold, because the goals were defined as performance metrics not cultural growth and development. JLH Report II. (above) Comment to UN President, Member State Delegates and UN SDG

This is a copy of a requested comment on the UN NGO Major Group’s recommendations for the UN Post2015 Sustainable development goals, being developed by the UN Open Working Group (OWG) of member country representatives, guided by the UN’s consultants and representatives of civil society groups around the world. It’s a really exciting thing

Posts on the UN NGO Week 4 Sustainability dialog for “WorldWeWant2015“ – Post II references Post I below it, and is in reply to Alison Doig, working with Christian Aid, Green Alliance, WWF, Greenpeace and RSPB to understand the nature of the relation between environmental sustainability, quoted at the bottom. Alison lays out a set of

We’ve largely used up or maximized our use of the good quality sources on earth, for lots of our critical resource needs. It’s evident in their systematically rising prices, for one thing, but also in our rapidly declining rates of discovering new reserves, for half a century now! We’ve “eaten the good stuff”, and still

Posts to the UN NGO Thematic Consultation on Education on how to measure and improve education for the Post2015 UN development goals. My series of three comments focus on the tools a student needs to create their own educations… NOT on measuring the productive value of their educations for business. We did that already,

10/26/12 in Shining Light on “Dark Energy”, part of my “reality math” series, I describe how standard measures of business impacts vastly under-count them, and how it has equally misled our theory and practices of sustainable design. We’re not counting the consumption required to deliver business services at all, and that’s commonly much larger than the impacts we

There are a great variety of reasons to organize people Sometimes it’s to discover something or to accomplish something Sometimes it’s to connect people who share their views Sometimes for people who share a common world from different views… (but have remarkably different talents and views) If you know of good examples or methods not

This is a brief but relevant comment, from my Systems Thinking World discussions, points out a way the efforts by Goggle and others, to mine “meaning” from of the massive quantities of semantic data now available, is missing a golden opportunity. There are a variety of ways to use the natural structures of languages as

___________________ A comprehensive method guiding investors to compete for profiting the commons It would not just count profits but also liabilities, in financial terms, using monetized business ESG balance sheets (eco-balance sheets), in combination with normal financial balance sheets. Then everyone will see the real societal financial costs of making money today, that present or even